Methodist Episcopal Church of Danby records, 1831-1915.
Collection Number: 6056
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Methodist Episcopal Church of Danby records, 1831-1915.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6056
Abstract:
One volume of Trustees' Annual Meeting minutes (1831-1915), one volume of Steward's
Quarterly Conference meeting minutes (1831-1885), and a Register (1856-1906) listing
members, baptisms and marriages.
Creator:
Methodist Episcopal Church of Danby (Danby, N.Y.)
Quanitities:
1 microfilm reels.
1 CDs.
Language:
Collection material in English
The Methodist Church of Danby was originally organized as a class of five members
in 1811. It was incorporated as a society in 1831. The next year the church building
was begun. There were two other appointments in the Danby circuit, Morris Chapel (which
had 60 members in 1879) and Jersey Hill.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Danby; 3 vols. of records, mainly document Quarterly
Stewart Meetings (1831-1885). Although a class was organized in 1811, no records exist
before 1831. The Quarterly Stewart Meeting records include: names of persons elected
stewards, names of individuals given licenses to preach, reports on the Sabbath school
and the state of the church, and records of money collected during the year.
Also included in the collection are annual trustee meeting records (1831-1915) and
a church register (1856-1906).
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Methodist Episcopal Church of Danby records, #6056. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Places:
Danby (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Subjects:
Methodist Episcopal Church -- New York (State) -- Danby.
Form and Genre Terms:
Minutes.
Baptismal certificates.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Item 1 |
Annual Trustee Meeting Minutes, November 29, 1831 - January 1, 1915 , Chronological,
not paginated
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November 29, 1831 - January 1, 1915 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains: Certificate of incorporation (November 29, 1831)3 decision to build a meeting
house (March 1832), names of persons elected trustees, records of repairs to the meeting
house and parsonage (and their cost), names of persons elected treasurers, names of
persons hired as sextons, and records of expenditures.
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| Item 2 |
Quarterly Conference Meeting Minutes, August 27, 1831 - May 16, 1885 , Chronological,
not paginated
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August 27, 1831 - May 16, 1885 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains: names of stevards and expenditures, names of individuals given license to
preach, reports on the Sabbath school, names of district stevards, pastors' and stewards'
reports, names of full members, of those vho withdrew from the church.
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| Item 3 |
Church Register,
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July 1, 1856 - October, 1906 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains: names of members and how admitted to the church, membership lists for the
various classes, baptismal records and marriage records.
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